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A very interesting point! Cloud services cost tons of money. For companies running on AWS, a better alternative might be to migrate to Google Cloud or alter cheaper alternatives. Google Cloud lacks some bells and whistles at this point but it shaves off 50% of your AWS bill.

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Do you work for GCE? You've made this exact same comment twice on the same link. Do you have any examples or links that back up the 50% cheaper point? As well as the trade-offs for switching to GCE? We run on GCE, Heroku, and AWS.

No, I don't work at Google. I work for Monsanto. Here is my take on AWS vs Google: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GI...

Performance benchmark summary: ("1X" is AWS)

Compute:

VMs Price: 30% less

Boot time: ¼ X

Network between VMs: Same region: 4X Across regions: 10X

BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X

Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X

Disks: Read throughput: 1X Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent)

Local SSDs: Read throughput: 8X Writes throughput: 4X

Storage (S3): Throughput: 2X Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)

Monsanto is actively damaging the future agricultural possibilities of the entire world with their business practices and how they sell their seeds. Creating seeds that we can way over dose with poison?

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